African Poetry Book
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Bakandamiya: An Elegy
$18.95 Add to cartCovering more than five hundred years of cultural transformation, Bakandamiya: An Elegy is a book-length epic poem set in northern Nigeria. The poem moves from passages of mythic power to elegant lyri… [more below]
- Series: African Poetry Book
- Author: Dzukogi, Saddiq
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 114
- Publish Date: December 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1496244273
- Language: English
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Leaked Footages
$17.95 Add to cartWinner of the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets
The poems in Leaked Footages carry urgent subjects, ranging from death to disappearance to grief to memory. Not only do the poems fulfill th- Series: African Poetry Book
- Author: Sadiq, Abu Bakr
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 102
- Publish Date: November 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1496240138
- Language: English
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Keorapetse Kgositsile: Collected Poems, 1969-2018
$24.95 Add to cartKeorapetse Kgositsile, South Africa’s second poet laureate, was a political activist, teacher, and poet. He lived, wrote, and taught in the United States for a significant part of his life and collabo… [more below]
- Series: African Poetry Book
- Author: Kgositsile, Keorapetse
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 298
- Publish Date: January 01 2023
- ISBN10: 149622115X
- Language: English
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Careless Seamstress
$17.95 Add to cartThis dazzling debut announces a not-so-new voice: that of the spoken-word poet Tjawangwa Dema. Winner of the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets, Dema’s collection, The Careless Seamstress, e… [more below]
- Series: African Poetry Book
- Author: Dema, Tjawangwa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: March 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1496214129
- Language: English
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Loving the Dying
$17.95 Add to cartLoving the Dying is a collection of poems on life’s different stages. Set against the backdrop of a conflicted society, Len Verwey looks at a person’s life from youth and growing up to aging and dying… [more below]
- Series: African Poetry Book
- Author: Verwey, Len
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 60
- Publish Date: September 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1496234685
- Language: English
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The Kitchen-Dweller’s Testimony
$15.95 Add to cartWinner of the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets, The Kitchen-Dweller’s Testimony asks: Whose testimony is valid? Whose testimony is worth recording? Osman’s speakers, who are almost always
- Series: African Poetry Book
- Author: Osman, Ladan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 108
- Publish Date: April 01 2015
- ISBN10: 0803266863
- Language: English
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After the Ceremonies: New and Selected Poems
$19.95 Add to cartAma Ata Aidoo is one of the best-known African writers today. Spanning three decades of work, the poems in this collection address themes of colonialism, independence, motherhood, and gender in intima… [more below]
- Series: African Poetry Book
- Author: Aidoo, Ama Ata
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 276
- Publish Date: March 01 2017
- ISBN10: 0803296940
- Language: English
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Sacrament of Bodies
$17.95 Add to cart2021 Lambda Literary Awards Finalist
In this groundbreaking collection of poems, Sacrament of Bodies, Romeo Oriogun fearlessly interrogates how a queer man in Nigeria can heal in a society where ever- Series: African Poetry Book
- Author: Oriogun, Romeo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 78
- Publish Date: March 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1496219643
- Language: English
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Gabriel Okara: Collected Poems
$19.95 Add to cartGabriel Okara, a prize-winning author whose literary career spans six decades, is rightly hailed as the elder statesman of Nigerian literature. The first Modernist poet of anglophone Africa, he is bes… [more below]
- Series: African Poetry Book
- Author: Okara, Gabriel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: April 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0803286872
- Language: English
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Origins of the Syma Species
$17.95 Add to cartWinner of the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets
Winner of the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets, Tares Oburumu’s collection is a brief history of where he came from: Syma, a neg
- Series: African Poetry Book
- Author: Oburumu, Tares
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 72
- Publish Date: March 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1496237021
- Language: English
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Your Crib, My Qibla
$17.95 Add to cartDerek Walcott Prize for Poetry Winner
Your Crib, My Qibla interrogates loss, the death of a child, and a father’s pursuit of language ab
Julie Suk Award Winner
Nigeria Prize for Literature shortlist- Series: African Poetry Book
- Author: Dzukogi, Saddiq
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 108
- Publish Date: March 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1496225775
- Language: English
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Mine Mine Mine
$17.95 Add to cartMine Mine Mine is a personal narration of Uhuru Portia Phalafala’s family’s experience of the migrant labor system brought on by the gold mining industry in Johannesburg, South Africa. Using geopoetic… [more below]
- Series: African Poetry Book
- Author: Phalafala, Uhuru Portia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: March 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1496235150
- Language: English
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Mummy Eaters
$17.95 Add to cart2023 American Book Award
Winner of the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets, Sherry Shenoda’s collection Mummy Eaters follows in the footsteps of a
2022 Longlist for the National Book Awards- Series: African Poetry Book
- Author: Shenoda, Sherry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: September 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1496232542
- Language: English
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Modern Sudanese Poetry: An Anthology
$19.95 Add to cartSpanning more than six decades of Sudan’s post-independence history, this collection features work by some of Sudan’s most renowned modern poets, largely unknown in the United States. Adil Babikir’s e… [more below]
- Series: African Poetry Book
- Author: Babikir, Adil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 186
- Publish Date: September 01 2019
- ISBN10: 149621563X
- Language: English
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January Children
$15.95 Add to cartSillerman First Book Prize for African Poets
“A taut debut collection of heartfelt poems.”—Publishers Weekly
2018 Arab American Book Award Winner, PoetryIn her dedication Safia Elhillo writes, “The Ja
- Series: African Poetry Book
- Author: Elhillo, Safia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 90
- Publish Date: March 01 2017
- ISBN10: 0803295987
- Language: English
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The Gathering of Bastards
$19.95 Add to cart2024 National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist in Poetry
Like I knew, standing
on the seashore, the hunger
wracking a migrant’s body
is movement.
–from Romeo Oriogun’s “Migrant by the Sea” The- Series: African Poetry Book
- Author: Oriogun, Romeo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: October 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1496234030
- Language: English
